A protest of 1.03 Million People in a city with a population of 7 Million. That means every 1/7 of the people in Hong Kong are protesting for keeping their rights.
Recently a person murdered someone in Taiwan and flew to Hong Kong. Hong Kong tried to take the person back to Taiwan for his offense to be charged there, but Taiwan was not in Hong Kong's list of countries that are able to do that.
Normally Hong Kong will just add Taiwan to the list and get the criminal to Taiwan but the government, which is pro-Chinese, wanted to update the law so that China can now get people in Hong Kong without political reasons too. Hong Kongers were terrified and think this will provide the opportunity for China to prosecute people opposing them in Hong Kong, which is a place with freedom of speech, and thought that it was a major threat to them and a break of the 50-year promise ( one country two system) set in 1997. Therefore, they went on the streets to speak for the cancellation of the discussion of this new law.
Forgive my limited English.
I saw someone wanting a subreddit dedicated to politics in Asia and I thought it is a good idea so here it is r/AsianPolitics let's see how it goes
ivanng2014 on June 9th, 2019 at 14:52 UTC »
Credits to local media.
ivanng2014 on June 9th, 2019 at 15:02 UTC »
A little explanation here:
Recently a person murdered someone in Taiwan and flew to Hong Kong. Hong Kong tried to take the person back to Taiwan for his offense to be charged there, but Taiwan was not in Hong Kong's list of countries that are able to do that.
Normally Hong Kong will just add Taiwan to the list and get the criminal to Taiwan but the government, which is pro-Chinese, wanted to update the law so that China can now get people in Hong Kong without political reasons too. Hong Kongers were terrified and think this will provide the opportunity for China to prosecute people opposing them in Hong Kong, which is a place with freedom of speech, and thought that it was a major threat to them and a break of the 50-year promise ( one country two system) set in 1997. Therefore, they went on the streets to speak for the cancellation of the discussion of this new law.
Forgive my limited English.
I saw someone wanting a subreddit dedicated to politics in Asia and I thought it is a good idea so here it is r/AsianPolitics let's see how it goes
CthulubeFlavorcube on June 9th, 2019 at 16:34 UTC »
The other 3 million who want to protest can't get outside because it's too crowded